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Schmidt telescope control room at La Silla	Water truck going to Paranal	Silence please	Fitting anemometers

HQ exterior under construction	Laser Guide Star Testing	Arriving San Pedro de Atacama	Chaxa Lagoon

Sunrise from Paranal	Valle de la Luna	ESO HQ in Garching, 1980	BBC crew at Paranal

Sunset at Paranal	Hans-Emil Schuster Receiving the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins	VLT Unit Telescope Underbelly	Moonset near Chajnantor

Archaeological research during the construction of the REOSC factory in the early 1990s	Part of the multi-object spectrograph FLAMES on the VLT.	Sun's light glinting over APEX	Van Rompuy Visits

Still from Matrix Workshop	Still from Matrix Workshop	Wide-field view of the sky around the young star HD 100546	VLT Inauguration

ALMA up Close	ALMA Antennas	telescope_3-6	From Antu to Yepun (Side-by-side composite)

Building the Paranal Residencia — From Turbulence to Tranquility (side-by-side composite)	Poster of Café & Kosmos 11 Sept 2012	Chajnantor Plateau	Swimming in the desert

European assembly site	Transporter operator	ALMA antennas ready for action	Mechanical Workshop at La Silla Observatory

E-ELT M5 support system being tested	The ESO 3.6-metre telescope Under Construction	Early steps on the construction of the domes of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope and the 1.4-metre Coudé Auxiliary Telescope	Shared time

The location of the Hercules galaxy cluster	Site testing station in South Africa	Site Testing Station in Karoo, South Africa	Site Testing in Karoo, South Africa

Pioneering astronomical watch reaches for the stars at Paranal	Astronomy Olympics Reaches the Very Large Telescope	The President of the Czech Republic at the Paranal Residencia	The President of the Czech Republic in the VLT Control Room

The European Integration Facility at ALMA	Solargraph at ESO Headquarters	ALMA is taking shape at the AOS	Screenshot from the HISTORY Channel’s series of short stories featuring ESO telescopes